The way to make developers ditch DirectX in favor SDL is not by talking, argue, pushing, debate, but to show them.
It would take one game to prove SDL's merits. A game with blisteringly fast 3D-engine, beautiful graphics, jawdropping soundtrack, pricewinning storyline. Put it on one single DVD that runs on any OS (Linux, *BSD, BeOS, AmigaOS, MorphOS, MacOS(/X), QNX, Windows and any other SDL-enabled OS) and get it out to the gameshops.
This would go a long way to prove that you can reach "any" platform, that you can use SDL without any loss in quality or speed, and you can do this with little extra cost.
nono... they'd start blaming the user for not applying the hourly patch, lobbying to make it illegal to share how to prevent triggering those bugs and lastly demand that any X-box producers be called terrorists....
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However such a move would create a shock in Europe, making everyone to realise how very dangerous the current situation is, being so dependant upon the software of a single (foreign) company.
Hah. Code Red, I Love You, Sir Cam, Nimda, whatever, should have tought that lesson long time ago.
What would happen if all you clever hackers out there put you money where your mouth is and moved to Europe where we still have some sort of civilrights.
It would be interesting to see how the bou^H^H^Helected representatives would react if most of the new economy wasn't US-based anymore...
And backdoors is of no use unless all nations makes similar legislation. And then american industries will have access to *all* tradesecrets in Europe.
Ahem, Amiga and BeOS are neither Linux, GNULinux or GPL'ed. Thus any/. posts would automatically get modded down.
Only nonGPL'ed system that would get modded up would be PlayStation since those really nice chaps at Sony is sooo communityfriendly and lobbying fiercely against all those draconian laws.
Why do Mozilla when we have IE?
Why do Linux when we have Windows?
Why do OpenOffice when we have MS Office?
Why give people choice?
Why have any kind of competition?
Why do anything?
You don't like konqueror/HTML. Well, don't use it. Just don't tell anyone what they should do with their "sparetime".
I for one love konqueror. I for don't see any harm in friendly competition.
And I for one love KDE... and to extend your logic: we shouldn't have Gnome.
So, how long do you guess it will take M$ to introduce a default-encrypting-scheme on.doc and all their other proprietary formats and starts haunting all the Word-et-al-filter-authors for breaking the DMCA?
What makes this "fun" and very scary is, that this is propably exactly how the majority of people think.
I mean, if you start what is happening you'll loose credibility really fast. You'd sound just like a cheap copy of Fox Mulder. The tale you'd be telling would sound just *too* Orwellian too unbeliviable.
And you wonder why the mainstream press isn't (or hardly is) picking up on these stories?
If you ever plan to go "under the hood" of your linux, then I've got this warning:
STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM RED HAT AND CLONES.
And chances are that you *will* need to go under the if your HW isn't 110% supported. And there the various Linux-HOWTO's wont help you much. Red Hat seems to want to setup things their own way (just try figuring out the mess in/etc will take you forever).
And if you plan to compile something from source you're into another hell.
Red Hat is the distro that makes no sence!
I wasted almost a year with RH (6.x) until I discovered Slackware. And everything suddenly worked. Everything could be configured. The Linux-HOWTOs could actually be used. And I could actually compile stuff.
I'd say, if you ever need to fiddle, go with Slackware (or perhaps Debian).
... or just go FreeBSD.... *way* cooler than Slackware!;)
Hmm... strange.... here in Denmark we've got porn i (almost) every gasstation, conviniencestore and supermarked. And so it have been for the last 20-30 years.
Computers are (still) unfiltered in libraries and schools.
I haven't caught or heard anyone caught in masturbating in libraries and schools.
Hmm... perhaps it's an american thing to spontaneous masturbate when exposed to porn? Perhaps you're not exposed to enough?
Noone is saying we are sitting on IRC 24/7 and we do recommend people to seek professionel help.
But when that's said that doesn't solve the issue that people come to rely on us because:
1) All the professionel help they get are a monthly visit to the psykiatrisk for a new prescription for Prozac and the likes. We all know that doesn't solve anything, but that's how it works in this country anyway.
2) Quite a lot have some kind of fears/angst on top of their depression. Fear of leaving the house, fear of people, fear of people getting close. IRC gives them a chance to leverage this fear and meet people either through anonymity and/or the distance/facelessness.
3) Some doesn't trust anyone due to either abuses in life, 1) and/or 2). They too are gaining an entrylevel to "get out there".
4) Some are very lonely. No family, no friends. All they got is perhaps a therapist.
All in all on IRC we find something we don't find or are ready for IRL.
Personally I've gained a lot from IRC. Learned that there was more help to be hat than the monthly prescription. Learning socialskills. And actually *meet* people (yes, we actually meet eachother outside IRC). And in times I got more out of IRC than various ad hoc therapi/workshops.
I run a chat for people with depression and similar disorders.
We find great comfort in chatting with eachother and are happy that the various IRC-networks gives us this upportunity.
But when this kind of childish behavior sets in, it's not just the various networkoperators and sponsors who pays.
There are real people behind all those nicks. People who have come to depend on it. And suddenly find themselves alone, again. Alone to deal with their pain.
Once we have relocated to yet a new network, next step is at get contact to all the users. Mostly impossible, few trust others to get close enough to give out personal datas (like email).
Third step is to get people to change their client. Almost as impossible, many of the users aren't your run-of-the-mill powerusers.
Bottom line is that every time this pre-teen-kidz feel an urge to show off their l337-status, *real* people with *real* life and *real* problem.
But those script-kiddies doesn't care, to them we are just faceless nicks.
My wish is, that once those kids grow up they will learn of the harm they had done. Know that when they trashed a network, someone was left alone... crying in the dark...
... and know *they* are to blame for nonexistance of IRC and free chats.
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Who said it would be lighter? Making a vaccuum-tube smaller doesn't really make it much lighter, unless nothing have a mass. ;)
The way to make developers ditch DirectX in favor SDL is not by talking, argue, pushing, debate, but to show them.
It would take one game to prove SDL's merits. A game with blisteringly fast 3D-engine, beautiful graphics, jawdropping soundtrack, pricewinning storyline. Put it on one single DVD that runs on any OS (Linux, *BSD, BeOS, AmigaOS, MorphOS, MacOS(/X), QNX, Windows and any other SDL-enabled OS) and get it out to the gameshops.
This would go a long way to prove that you can reach "any" platform, that you can use SDL without any loss in quality or speed, and you can do this with little extra cost.
Is SDL up to the task? Is the community?
nono... they'd start blaming the user for not applying the hourly patch, lobbying to make it illegal to share how to prevent triggering those bugs and lastly demand that any X-box producers be called terrorists....
However such a move would create a shock in Europe, making everyone to realise how very dangerous the current situation is, being so dependant upon the software of a single (foreign) company.
Hah. Code Red, I Love You, Sir Cam, Nimda, whatever, should have tought that lesson long time ago.
What would happen if all you clever hackers out there put you money where your mouth is and moved to Europe where we still have some sort of civilrights.
It would be interesting to see how the bou^H^H^Helected representatives would react if most of the new economy wasn't US-based anymore...
Just call it XFree86PerlMozillaPythontclKDEApacheSambaMySqlopen sshwebminGNU/Linux
And backdoors is of no use unless all nations makes similar legislation. And then american industries will have access to *all* tradesecrets in Europe.
You gotta love Echelon....
I'd rather live in the fear of terror than live in terror.
I'ts been said that WTC was an attack on all free democracies and we must defend them with all means.
But doing this by removing all that is free and democratic, namely civilrights, then what's left to defend?
Ahem, Amiga and BeOS are neither Linux, GNULinux or GPL'ed. Thus any /. posts would automatically get modded down.
Only nonGPL'ed system that would get modded up would be PlayStation since those really nice chaps at Sony is sooo communityfriendly and lobbying fiercely against all those draconian laws.
... of an american president these days?
Why do Mozilla when we have IE?
Why do Linux when we have Windows?
Why do OpenOffice when we have MS Office?
Why give people choice?
Why have any kind of competition?
Why do anything?
You don't like konqueror/HTML. Well, don't use it. Just don't tell anyone what they should do with their "sparetime".
I for one love konqueror. I for don't see any harm in friendly competition.
And I for one love KDE... and to extend your logic: we shouldn't have Gnome.
Bjarne
So, how long do you guess it will take M$ to introduce a default-encrypting-scheme on .doc and all their other proprietary formats and starts haunting all the Word-et-al-filter-authors for breaking the DMCA?
Try updating your ports! ;)
What makes this "fun" and very scary is, that this is propably exactly how the majority of people think.
I mean, if you start what is happening you'll loose credibility really fast. You'd sound just like a cheap copy of Fox Mulder. The tale you'd be telling would sound just *too* Orwellian too unbeliviable.
And you wonder why the mainstream press isn't (or hardly is) picking up on these stories?
If you ever plan to go "under the hood" of your linux, then I've got this warning:
/etc will take you forever).
;)
STAY THE HELL AWAY FROM RED HAT AND CLONES.
And chances are that you *will* need to go under the if your HW isn't 110% supported. And there the various Linux-HOWTO's wont help you much. Red Hat seems to want to setup things their own way (just try figuring out the mess in
And if you plan to compile something from source you're into another hell.
Red Hat is the distro that makes no sence!
I wasted almost a year with RH (6.x) until I discovered Slackware. And everything suddenly worked. Everything could be configured. The Linux-HOWTOs could actually be used. And I could actually compile stuff.
I'd say, if you ever need to fiddle, go with Slackware (or perhaps Debian).
... or just go FreeBSD.... *way* cooler than Slackware!
So, if the DMCA had been in place 20 years ago and IBM had decided to encrypt their BIOS, how would the world look today?
One line of questions I'd like to see MPAA answer would be:
1) Do they believe in the fair use rights for consumers?
2) Do they believe in the right for anyone to reverse engineer any technology.
If yes, that would imply that any user or group of users would be allowed to playback any DVD's in any ways they (the consumer) see fit?
How would MPAA suggest a consumer to exercise their rights to create a tool to playback a DVD without infringing on the DMCA?
And how would said tool not end up being a tool for copying as well?
Depends on who the "world" is....
Hmm... strange.... here in Denmark we've got porn i (almost) every gasstation, conviniencestore and supermarked. And so it have been for the last 20-30 years.
Computers are (still) unfiltered in libraries and schools.
I haven't caught or heard anyone caught in masturbating in libraries and schools.
Hmm... perhaps it's an american thing to spontaneous masturbate when exposed to porn? Perhaps you're not exposed to enough?
Bjarne
Noone is saying we are sitting on IRC 24/7 and we do recommend people to seek professionel help.
But when that's said that doesn't solve the issue that people come to rely on us because:
1) All the professionel help they get are a monthly visit to the psykiatrisk for a new prescription for Prozac and the likes. We all know that doesn't solve anything, but that's how it works in this country anyway.
2) Quite a lot have some kind of fears/angst on top of their depression. Fear of leaving the house, fear of people, fear of people getting close. IRC gives them a chance to leverage this fear and meet people either through anonymity and/or the distance/facelessness.
3) Some doesn't trust anyone due to either abuses in life, 1) and/or 2). They too are gaining an entrylevel to "get out there".
4) Some are very lonely. No family, no friends. All they got is perhaps a therapist.
All in all on IRC we find something we don't find or are ready for IRL.
Personally I've gained a lot from IRC. Learned that there was more help to be hat than the monthly prescription. Learning socialskills. And actually *meet* people (yes, we actually meet eachother outside IRC). And in times I got more out of IRC than various ad hoc therapi/workshops.
Bjarne
I run a chat for people with depression and similar disorders.
We find great comfort in chatting with eachother and are happy that the various IRC-networks gives us this upportunity.
But when this kind of childish behavior sets in, it's not just the various networkoperators and sponsors who pays.
There are real people behind all those nicks. People who have come to depend on it. And suddenly find themselves alone, again. Alone to deal with their pain.
Once we have relocated to yet a new network, next step is at get contact to all the users. Mostly impossible, few trust others to get close enough to give out personal datas (like email).
Third step is to get people to change their client. Almost as impossible, many of the users aren't your run-of-the-mill powerusers.
Bottom line is that every time this pre-teen-kidz feel an urge to show off their l337-status, *real* people with *real* life and *real* problem.
But those script-kiddies doesn't care, to them we are just faceless nicks.
My wish is, that once those kids grow up they will learn of the harm they had done. Know that when they trashed a network, someone was left alone... crying in the dark...
... and know *they* are to blame for nonexistance of IRC and free chats.
Bjarne
But why would M$ care? Lawsuits takes forever. Once the verdict is in, the damage is done and all the penalty they'll receive is a slap on the finger.
... calling an apple orange doesn't make it less an apple.
... now that mp3.com is digested?
Bjarne
go from freedom, openness to opression, regulation, totalitarianism?
Bjarne